Billie Holiday sings Strange Fruit

[MethuenProgressive]

Run time: 03:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXdnD39GYVU   Posted on YouTube: January 28, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 29, 2008 By DU Member: MethuenProgressive Views on DU: 550

 
Hillary Clinton's Campaign has been equated to the lynching of black men and boys by Obama supporters referring to this song.
It occurs to me that those who approved that comparision must not know much about this song or the history behind it.

[lynnertic]

1. Strange Fruit is a war song IMO

about the sight of black men hanging lynched and burned from the branches of a southern tree.

Lyching was such a popular sport in the early part of the last century that postcards were sent out about them. That practice (not the lynching) stopped when the postmaster general threatened a policy of not delivering them (or something).

I think WWII stopped lynching. I'm not sure. Google is your friend, and I found a book that came out on the subject a few years ago (heard all the NPR interviews)
Without Sanctuary: artifacts of lynching in America.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1874649

If you think the image of our contractors at the Fallujah bridge is inflammatory then you have only an inkling of the rage that the subject of lynchings brings to the minds of people whose families were affected not just by the torturous killings themselves, but the evil atmosphere of terror and oppression surrounding those killings, even generations later. (expletives deleted)

I mean, my grandparents were alive when the last mass lynching occurred (1946). They remember this stuff first hand.

This is bad form on the part of the Clinton campaign and it shows a lack of knowledge and cultural sensitivity. If I were in HRC's camp I would stay as far away from that subject as possible, or I'd be hustling out apologies as fast as my speechwriters could type them up.

[MethuenProgressive]

2. "I think WWII stopped lynching. " No, Sir, It did not.

DU's Obama supporters who suggested, and approved of the suggestion, that the Clinton Campaign compares with the lynchings of black men and boys showed no class, no knowledge, and no humanity at all.

[lynnertic]

3. thank you for posting the video to teach the ignorant

and I agree with you.